The Immanent Frame: Imagining radical refusal
In Reviews in Cultural Theory, Erin Wunker reviews Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory, and Postsecular Modernity by Simon During: How do we refuse capitalism? Should we? This is Simon During’s...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Besides
I love the story about Shakeela Hassan. I just told it again last night, in fact. In the late 1950s, Shakeela Hassan arrives in the U.S. from Lahore, to begin a medical internship at Northwestern...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Postdoc fellowship: New Circles of Learning for Engaged...
The Boston University School of Theology is seeking a Research Fellow in Congregational Studies for a three-year period, beginning June 1, 2012. Review of applications will begin March 19 and continue...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Israel, secularism, and democracy
At Harvard Law School, faculty members Noah Feldman and Duncan Kennedy recently debated the question “Can Israel Be Both Jewish and Democratic?” The debate was motivated in part by Ronald Dworkin’s...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Hope, tragedy, and prophecy
It is hard not to be convinced by Akeel Bilgrami’s careful, patient, and generous exposition in “Secularism: Its Content and Context.” And indeed there is much with which I agree, especially the...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Archbishop of Canterbury to step down
On March 16th, Archbishop Rowan Williams announced his acceptance of the position of Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, effective January 2013. Enthroned in 2003, he will continue to carry out...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: New journal: Regulating Religion
The Religion and Diversity Project, hosted at the University of Ottawa, is currently accepting papers for publication in Regulating Religion, a new e-journal for graduate student work: The Religion...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Public religions and the postsecular
The latest issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion contains the presidential address of British sociologist James A. Beckford. In it, Beckford critically reflects on the concepts of...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Religious freedom between truth and tactic
In the last issue of First Things, a self-described coalition of “Catholics and Evangelicals together” defends religious freedom. The coalition includes a number of notable Americans, like Charles...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Rising alternatives to organized religion
In a recent issue of TIME, Amy Sullivan writes of a 2009 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and an example of American expats in Mexico that both suggest Americans may prefer to grow...
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